Support / questions about Lemmy.
Frankly, I also hate this sort of word filter. I fully agree with the OP here because the issue is not the specific words that you use, but what you convey through those words within a certain context. The book title is a great example of that, as "bitсh" is partially reclaimed and the author is using it to label a group that she is part of.
It's also damn easy to circumvent this sort of filter, as I've exemplified above, so it's often useless.
It is not a bot that censored your post but the lemmy.ml server itself. For some reason lemmy.ml (and I think lemmy.world) filter some words from posts. If you don't like that you'll have to change to another instance.
I am using feddit.de and I can write "chess bitch" if I want.
This is the support community and I'm requesting that the software be fixed.
Do you have any idea if the blacklist/list of communities filtering profanity is publicly accessible anywhere?
The lemmy.world instance doesn't have the profanity filter enabled.
Automated censoring is stupid anyway. The people interested in evading the filter will find it trivial, the people who are really so fragile they can't handle seeing mild profanity on the Internet should probably invest in some client-side censoring solutions, or go reinvent Club Penguin or something.
It would be nice if the filter was like an optional reaction instead of like a hard ban